St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-23
q List Of the Important Bills So Far In,
troduced in the Senate and
House.
The Action That Has Been Taken and
Their Exact Standing at the Pres
ent Time.
The House Has ga Bills on File,
While the Senate Can Show
But 1871.
Until the Committees Have Time to
Consider Them But Few Will
Become Laws.

noon there had been 224 bills introduced.
This is very excellent record, considering
the fact that so much time was occupied in
i'll the election of United States senator,
and it demonstrates that this session is to
be remarkable one for the amount of
work accomplished. OF course large num-
Der Of these bills are ola purely local char
acter, but there are good many of general
public interest, and it is certoin that much
Important legislation will be enacted. No
bills have been passed as yet-other than
those of local nature-they being in the
hands of the respective committees tor con-
slderation and to be put in shape. Follow
ing is list of the important bills so far in
troduced, showing the number of the hou Sc
hle; the member introducing it; its title and
character: to what committee it was re-
terred and how far it has progressed
l (Donnelly)-Relating to the interest on
money. Bank. judiciary.
(Donne lly)-Relating to freedom of
ma rkets. Judiciary. Recommended to pass.
(Donnelly)-To tax railroad companies.
Railroads. Recommended to pass Second
reading considered in committee of whole
and recommended to pass.
(Keyes)-Regulatipe railroad companies.
Railroads. Recommended to pass.
9 tLee)-Taxing telegraph companies.
Taxes.
10 Donney)-To prevent corruption of
public officers by railroad corporations. Ju-
dietary.
IL Donney)-Providing for annual ses-
sions of the legislature. Judiciary.
IS (Donnelly)-To punish corrupt use of
money in elections. Judiciary.
Ia Hucas)-Regulating the employment of
convict labor. Judiciary.
II Lee)-Taxing express companies. Ju-
dietary.
% (Lum)-To build bridge at Brainerd.
Finance.
81 tNewell)-To prevent unreasonable de-
lay in payment of workngmen's wages La
Dor
% (Keyes)-To regulate common carriers
Railroads.
81 (Reese)-To prevent combinations and
conspiracies to control the market price of
grain, Grain Inspection.
SO (NewelD-Fo abolish the state board of
Immigration. Labor. Recommended to pass.
Second reading.
81 fNewel)-To abolish process of garnish-
ment as applied to workingmen. Judiciary
Recommended to be indie. .nitely postponed,
but placed on file for second reading. Labor.
40 [Potter)--Relative to intoxicating liquors.
Temperance.
IS (Donnely)-For the benefit of working
men and mechanics. Judiciary. Recon-
mended to pass.
So (Sevatson)-To tax railroad lands. Rail-
roads.
55 (Donnelly)-To control railroad corpora
tons. Railroads.
81 (DonnelIy)-To secure postal rights for
the insane. Judiciary. Recommended to
pass.
IS (Keyes)-A polishing the office of oil in
spector. Judiciary.
70 (Prosser)-To inforce high license. Tenn
perance.
95 (Wiliams)-To tax notes and mortgages
Judiciary. Recommended to be indefinitely
postponed. On file for second reading. Second
reading.
los (Shuler)-For building soldiers
home. Soldiers home.
lug (Rogers)-FiXing the rate of interest on
money. Judiciary.
126 and 1T Uum)-To create the fourteenth
and fifteenth judicial districts. Judic ary
1872 Donnelly)-To regulate grain ware
houses, inspection, etc. Grain inspection.
1873 (Freeman)-To build an addition to the
state normal school. Finance. Normal
schools.
1876 (dattson)-Relating to elections. Jul
dietary.
100 (Potter)-To regulate actions for libel.
Judiciary.
l6j. Donnelly)- Relating to elections. Jul
III (Bennett)-To appropriate money for
the Mankato Normal school. Finance.
Norrnalssc hoetss
179IBaker3~ATo appropriate money to aid
in dTaning lands in the Red river valley
FINANCE,
1s5. IFreeman)-To build bridge at ST.
Cloud delegation. St. Cloud delegation.
200. Misunderstanding females the right
OF suffrage. Judiciary.
207. (Donnelly)-To establish the nomen-
clature of the Itascan sources of the Missis-
sippi river Roads and Manageable streams.
2lS. (Kreis)-To build bridge at Month
cello. Roads and bridges.
222. (Potter)-Providing for a constitu-
tional convention. Judiciary.
IN THE SENATE
No great burden of hills tho 10
forced upon itself, but of the 1877 intro
duced, forty eight may be called weighty
and of general interest in their Importance,
and seven of these have been passed. They
cover the great questions embraced in the
party platforms of last fall. No sooner
had the senate organized than Senator
Goodrich, of Blue Earth City, started IN for
high license He introduced the first eight
bills of the session, the third raising the
age Of consent, and the remaining five being
the bills recommended by the last railroad
commission. Then he prescribed a remedy
for grievances caused by the present tax
sales law. He sent up the long bill on
grain and warehouse inspection, also a bill
of forty-seven or more sections which the
railroad committee had also recommended
Thus one man was made the instrument
through whom proposed legislation for the
temperance class, the farmer and the
cheated land owner, robbed under
the law pertaining to tax sales and judy
ments was introduced. But the high license
railroad transportation. grain inspection
and tax title questions only cover a small
portion of the legislative programme the
senate has mapped out for itself. Good
rich went further and asked for postal
rights for inmates of insane asylums, legal
identity and rights for married women. the
taxation of large tracts of railroad lands,
and lastly, that women be allowed to vote
in Minnesota by constitutional amend
ment. The senate has passed his bill to
give postal rights to the confined insane,
and will doubtless pass the legal identity
for married women, the age of consent and
the tax title bills.
Other grave questions had their active
workers. Senator Bowen, of Sleepy Eye,
has worn the mantle of Thomas Wilson,
and declared war against certain land cor
poratOns owning over 2.000 600 acres of
land. which for years has been exempt from
taxation. Senator Pope, of Mankato,
has been the advocate of legislation
for the old veterans of the Union,
and bills for a soldiers home, burial OF old
veterans and their preference i'll public EN-
ployment, have been sent up to the desk
from him. the public preference bill being
passed. Senator Durant, of Saltwater,
has made all effort to prevent impostors
from getting the benefit of the proposed
soldier legislation by getting bill through
to prevent the unlawful wearing OF G. A.
r. badges. Marcus Johnson also has a
soldiers home bill. Senator Swenson of
Minneapolis, has been the great labor adj
yocate. and among his bills are those to es-
tablish a-Iabor bureau to regulate the en-
ployment of children, and to prevent loco
mnfive engineers and firemen from being